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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet ([6] pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
In this stylized dramatization of the puppet theater play, Jihei abandons business, family and self respect for a passionate love affair with a geisha whose freedom he cannot afford. As the world closes in upon him, he finds his only course of action to be death together with the lover he is unable to obtain in life.
[presented by] Janus Films ; Hyōgensha, Nihon Āto Shiatā Girudo ; seisaku Nakajima Masayuki, Shinoda Masahiro ; gensaku Chikamatsu Monzaemon ; kyakushoku Tomioka Taeko, Takemitsu Tōru, Shinoda Masahiro ; kantoku Shinoda Masahiro.
Based on: Shinjū ten no Amijima / Chikamatsu Monzaemon.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Nakamura Kichiemon, Iwashita Shima, Takita Yūsuke, Komatsu Hōsei, Fujiwara Kamatari.
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Director of photography, Narushima Tōichirō ; music, Takemitsu Tōru.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 104